R.J. Patterson

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2015
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Phoenix Chronicles

1 - The Shadow Hunter (Apr-2021)
2 - The Reaper (Jul-2021)
3 - Covert Invasion (Nov-2021)
4 - The Cobbler (Mar-2022)
5 - The Widowmaker (Jun-2022)
6 - A Bridge Too Far (Sep-2022)
7 - The Deadly Alchemist (Jan-2023)
8 - The Keystone Protocol (Jan-2023)
9 - The Last Train to Beijing (Sep-2023)
10 - The Sleeper (Jan-2024)

A Titus Black Thriller

1 - Behind Enemy Lines (Sep-2019)
2 - Game of Shadows (Oct-2019)
3 - Rogue Commander (Jan-2020)
4 - Line of Fire (May-2020)
5 - Blowback (Jul-2020)
6 - Honorable Lies (Oct-2020)
7 - Power Play (Mar-2021)
8 - State of Conspiracy (Jun-2021)
9 - The Patriot (Nov-2021)
10 - The President's Man (Feb-2022)
11 - The Haitian Assassin (May-2022)
12 - Codename: Killshot (Jul-2022)
13 - Chaos Theory (Nov-2022)
14 - House of Cards (Feb-2023)
15 - False Flag (May-2023)
16 - A Deadly Game (Nov-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

A Brady Hawk Novel

9 - Seek and Destroy (Sep-2017)
10 - Into the Shadows (Mar-2018)
11 - Hard Target (Mar-2018)
12 - No Way Out (Mar-2018)
13 - Two Minutes to Midnight (May-2018)
14 - Against All Odds (Aug-2018)
15 - Any Means Necessary (Nov-2018)
16 - Vengeance (Feb-2019)
17 - Code Red (May-2019)
18 - A Deadly Force (Aug-2019)
19 - Divide and Conquer (Nov-2019)
20 - Extreme Measures (Apr-2020)
21 - Final Strike (Sep-2020)

An Ed Maddux Cold War Spy Thriller

2 - To Catch a Spy (Oct-2017)
3 - Whispers of Treason (May-2018)
4 - Shadow of Lies (Aug-2018)
5 - The Man from Leningrad (Nov-2018)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Imminent Threat

    With a heightened threat of a terrorist attack on American soil, investigative journalist James Flynn travels to the hinterlands of Idaho to quell rumors about the Idaho National Laboratory becoming the new storage facility for Area 51 artifacts. But...

  • Seek and Destroy

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 9

    Brady Hawk has been the last line of defense between ruthless terrorists and untold bloodshed. But this time, he can't win. Katarina Petrov, leader of a shadow organization called The Chamber, seeks to undermine the United States' tenu...

  • To Catch a Spy

    An Ed Maddux Cold War Spy Thriller - 2

    Prague, Czechoslovakia. Fall 1964. The alliances between the Russians and the Germans have solidified-and they both found a safe place dangerously close to the free Western world in Prague. Living in the shadows along with his wif...

  • Hard Target

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 11

    Fear has evolved -- and it's more frightening than ever. Upon learning about the theft of a new weapons system by Al Hasib, the Pentagon braces for the worst. Yet they have no idea where the terrorists will strike first. When the United States’ bes...

  • Into the Shadows

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 10

    Darkness can’t hide in the shadows forever. Facing serious accusations voiced by President Michaels, Brady Hawk goes dark, disappearing in the Middle East. However, when he reconnects with a friend from his Navy Seal days, Hawk learns the true dept...

  • No Way Out

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 12

    Brady Hawk is no longer the hunter, but the one being hunted. In this globe-trotting thriller, terrorist mastermind Karif Fazil turns the tables on black ops assassin Brady Hawk in a play to remove the terror cell’s biggest threat for good. Hawk’...

  • Two Minutes to Midnight

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 13

  • Whispers of Treason

    An Ed Maddux Cold War Spy Thriller - 3

    Sometimes targets have killer aim. Fall 1965. Belgrade, Czechoslovakia. When the KGB selected Belgrade as its launching point for Russian super assassins, the CIA’s entire European division was put on alert -- especially Charles Pritchett, the Germ...

  • The Brady Hawk Series



  • Against All Odds

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 14

  • Shadow of Lies

    An Ed Maddux Cold War Spy Thriller - 4

    Never trust a man with nothing to lose. Fall 1965. East Berlin. Ed Maddux’s mission was a simple one -- retrieve the scientist and get him back across the Berlin Wall before daybreak. But when a great plan falls apart, Maddux finds himself incarcer...

  • Any Means Necessary

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 15

  • The Man from Leningrad

    An Ed Maddux Cold War Spy Thriller - 5

    Is the cost of losing your family worth stopping a world war?Spring 1966. One of the CIA’s most well placed assets in Leningrad, Alexsandr Zhirkov, suddenly goes silent, and the agency’s brass get nervous. Agent Ed Maddux travels from Bonn to mee...

  • Vengeance

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 16

    A hard choice …An impossible solution …A country’s fate hanging in the balance …Grieving the murder of his mother, former Navy SEAL Brady Hawk vows to avenge whoever killed her, no matter what the cost. However, Hawk finds the price far hefti...

  • Code Red

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 17

    When laying a trap, be careful not to get caught.With President Noah Young coming under intense scrutiny, he gives Brady Hawk and the Phoenix Foundation team their most daunting missions to date: capture the ghost leader of a terrorist cell. And they...

  • Eindspel

    Eindspel translates as End Game (Dutch to English) Unknown book as of 3-20-2023...

  • A Deadly Force

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 18

    When Phoenix Foundation operative Brady Hawk investigates someone with ties to the sinister conglomerate Obsidian, it comes at a high price -- and it’s very personal. Upon discovering a terrorist plot that will shake the foundation of the global fi...

  • Behind Enemy Lines

    A Titus Black Thriller - 1

    Treason runs deep. But one man won't stop digging for the truth. When a routine black ops rescue goes awry, Black returns with more than just a left-for-dead pilot in tow -- he's stumbled upon a secret operation with seismic implication...

  • Game of Shadows

    A Titus Black Thriller - 2

    Titus Black wasn't the trusting kind of guy, even for a black ops agent. And when he ventures into Russia to bring home a missing scientist, Black learns some information that makes him question everything he's known to be true about his director, J....



  • Divide and Conquer

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 19

    While the world celebrates billionaire Falcon Sinclair's accomplishments on getting people into space, no one has ever suspected his motives ... until now. Brady Hawk and the Phoenix Foundation discover that Sinclair isn't who he claims to be and has...

  • Rogue Commander

    A Titus Black Thriller - 3

    Titus Black doesn't like playing games, especially when it comes to terrorists. When three U.S. emissaries are murdered in broad daylight in Jordan by an assassin known as The Ghost, black ops specialist Titus Black teams up with Christina Shields to...

  • Extreme Measures

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 20

    When the world's most dangerous terrorist organization goes dark, Washington starts to get suspicious—and Brady Hawk and the Phoenix Foundation team spring into action. What Hawk uncovers is a burgeoning network that spans from Russia to Boliv...

  • Line of Fire

    A Titus Black Thriller - 4

    Not even darkness can hide from Titus Black. When members of the intelligence community in Washington started disappearing, the CIA was prompted to investigate. Unable to trust anyone at the agency, the CIA turned to Firestorm and Titus Black to unco...

  • Blowback

    A Titus Black Thriller - 5

  • Final Strike

    A Brady Hawk Novel - 21

    When the government you trust and serve turns on you, where do you go?In the final chapter of this bestselling series, Brady Hawk and the Phoenix Foundation team find themselves on the run after a critical mission is sabotaged by Obsidian operatives....

  • Honorable Lies

    A Titus Black Thriller - 6

    The best lies often contain the truth. When a terrorist organization claims responsibility for an attack on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, the victims seem random. But things aren’t always as they seem. Asked to investigate quietly, Titus Bl...

  • Power Play

    A Titus Black Thriller - 7

    With a thirst for danger and the skills to survive, black ops agent Titus Black is tapped to apprehend a rogue hacker who has escaped an underground CIA detention facility in Finland. When the man disappears into Russia, Black is tasked with tracking...

  • The Shadow Hunter

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 1

    Buckle up for this pulse-pounding thriller from award-winning and best selling author R.J. Patterson in a new series debut! Former black ops agent Brady Hawk is enjoying his new life with his growing family on a ranch in Montana. Then the former h...

  • State of Conspiracy

    A Titus Black Thriller - 8

    Some conspiracy theories are actually true.When a high-ranking U.S. government official goes missing, the president wants to keep the situation from the public, summoning the Firestorm team to take handle the job.However, when Titus Black and the tea...



  • The Reaper

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 2

    Sometimes your worst enemy is the one closest to you. When three CIA assets embedded in foreign drug cartels go missing, The Magnum Group is enlisted to investigate the source of a potential leak -- a U.S. ambassador with close ties to the presi...

  • Covert Invasion

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 3

    Some grudges die harder than others. As the Magnum Group unravels a mystery regarding the purpose of Russian spies that secretly entered the U.S., Brady Hawk finds himself in the den of one of the most ruthless Russian military leaders during the ...

  • The Patriot

    A Titus Black Thriller - 9

    Some wars never end.When an old Russian missile silo suddenly disappears, U.S. military brass become concerned that something is afoot. Instead of risking of international incident, Titus Black is sent to investigate—and disarm the weapon.But ...

  • The President's Man

    A Titus Black Thriller - 10

    The most dangerous threats are the ones you never see coming.When an investigation into a foreign businessman raises questions about one of the president's most trusted advisors, Firestorm agents Titus Black and Christian Shields are tasked with look...

  • The Cobbler

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 4

    The graves of the courageous are filled with the darkest of secrets. With political unrest spreading like a plague across the world, black ops agent Brady Hawk and the Magnum team come across a coded file linked to the suspected source of the uphe...

  • The Haitian Assassin

    A Titus Black Thriller - 11

    One man's illusion is another man's reality.As Titus Black begins to dismantle the remnants of the deviant Fullgood Initiative, he invites new trouble-and this time it's personal.Stumbling into a situation that leaves the lives of one of the Phoenix ...

  • The Widowmaker

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 5

    Sometimes the only way out is through. Determined to expose The Alliance and shut down the nefarious shadow organization, Brady Hawk puts his quest on hold after getting entrapped by a familiar foe with a bitter grudge. Faced with an ultimatum wit...

  • Codename: Killshot

    A Titus Black Thriller - 12

    The past always has a way of messing with our future ...As Titus Black grapples with one of the secrets from his past, one of the CIA's best assassins has gone rogue, putting the world's tenuous peace in jeopardy once he begins his assault on some of...

  • A Bridge Too Far

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 6

    The darker the secret, the deadlier the game. With President Norris buckling under mounting pressure both at home and abroad as U.S. ambassadors are getting assassinated, he turns to Brady Hawk and the Magnum Team to resolve the issue. However...

  • Chaos Theory

    A Titus Black Thriller - 13

    Sometimes the only way to win is to have nothing left to lose.Black ops agent and proud patriot Titus Black sees the writing on the wall as the Fullgood Initiative closes in on its ultimate plan of launching chaos across the globe. While the end game...



  • The Keystone Protocol

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 8

    Sometimes, the crosshairs aren’t in a scope -- they’re on your back. As Brady Hawk and the Magnum Group team travels to Montenegro to investigate one of the men pulling the strings for what’s left of The Alliance, they find that the organiza...

  • The Deadly Alchemist

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 7

    Brady Hawk returns in this pulse-pounding action thriller, fighting to bring down a cancer rotting the soul of his country’s leaders. As The Alliance continues its subversive attack on the U.S. government, the Magnum Group receive a communique f...

  • House of Cards

    A Titus Black Thriller - 14

    With the Fullgood Initiative dismantled and Cicely Calhoun behind bars, a fight is brewing over who will fill the void and attempt a global coup -- and Titus Black and the Phoenix Foundation team must stop it before it starts. From the ashes of th...

  • False Flag

    A Titus Black Thriller - 15

    Titus Black never gives a warning when he’s about to pull the trigger. With the dogs of war clamoring for a new conflict, Vice President Charles Bullock goes missing in a brazen abduction under the dead of night. The Phoenix Foundation’s opera...

  • The Last Train to Beijing

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 9

    Some islands are full of deadly secrets.As rumors swirl of an imminent attack by the shadowy Alliance, elite operative Brady Hawk is thrust into a pulse-pounding race against time. His mission: track down an enigmatic hacker with crucial intel that c...

  • A Deadly Game

    A Titus Black Thriller - 16

    No cost is too steep for Titus Black when it comes to freedom.Nearly six months have passed since Fullgood Initiative mastermind Cicely Calhoun escaped from a supermax prison in Colorado, reigniting fears of how she might strike next. And when the Ph...

  • The Sleeper

    The Phoenix Chronicles - 10

    Beware the enemy within.Covert operative Brady Hawk thought he knew who he could trust - until a catastrophic breach revealed a traitor in America's intelligence ranks. Hawk's crew of surveillance experts and seasoned agents must navigate a dangerous...

  • The Dragon King

    Security is really nothing more than a web of lies.After eliminating a devastating mole, Brady Hawk sets his sights on bringing down Jun Fang, the elusive Chinese billionaire at the helm of the sinister cabal known as The Alliance. Still reeling from...

  • Into the Deep

    Tropical paradise or dangerous battleground?Basking in the Caribbean sun during his retirement, J.D. Blunt, the former director of a U.S. covert agency, thought his days of intrigue were behind him. But when strange shipments of illegal weapons begin...

  • The Renegade Agent

    Stopping at nothing. Risking everything.Continuing his ruse as a clandestine assassin, Blake Barrett is tasked with taking down a rogue MI6 agent who's holding a tranche of secrets that threatens the security of a handful of powerful western nations....



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

R.J. Patterson has published 49 books.

The next book by R.J. Patterson, The Renegade Agent, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by R.J. Patterson, Imminent Threat, was published in August 2015.

Yes. R.J. Patterson has 2 series.
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